OUR TEAM

Principal Investigator

Yoed N. Kenett, PhD

My research broadly aims to comprehend the role of knowledge in higher-level cognition, in typical and atypical populations. I completed a Bachelor of Art in Cognitive Science and Psychology (2007) and a Master of Art in Cognitive Science (2009) at the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. I then earned my Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Leslie and Susan Gonda Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University (2015), working with Miriam Faust and David Anaki. Following my Ph.D., I completed my postdoctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown University (2015-2016), working with Joseph Austerweil and Bertram Malle, and at the University of Pennsylvania (2016-2020), working with Sharon Thompson-Schill and Anjan Chatterjee. I joined the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences as a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in August 2020, and Associate Professor since December 2025.

Email: yoedk@technion.ac.il
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PhD student

Ilana Shinder

I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology and management from Ben Gurion University, and a master’s degree in cognitive psychology from Tel Aviv University. Today, I am a PhD student at the Data and Decision Sciences faculty in the Technion under the supervision of PhD Yoed Kenett. I am interested in brain structures and networks that can predict creative abilities.

 

 

PhD student

Tuval Raz

I am a PhD student studying cognitive psychology at the Technion’s Data and Decision Sciences faculty under the supervision of Ph.D. Yoed Kenett. I am currently exploring question asking and its relation to creativity, as well as trying to develop new computational and AI models of question asking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Student

Gili Cohen

After graduating from the Technion with. a BSc in Data Science and Eningeering, I am currently pursuing my MSc in Data Science. My research focuses on exploring question-asking via gaming environments and relation to different cognitive processes. We aim to better understand human question asking processes through innovative prespective of natural setting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Student

tamar pat

I hold a BSc in Psychology and Biology from the university of Haifa, and am currently pursuing an MSc in Cognitive Psychology at the Technion. My research focuses on how semantic memory reorganizes during creative problem-solving, with an emphasis on insight and knowledge restructuring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Student

roni cohen-tsur

I’m an MSc student exploring human-AI interaction. My broader interests are centered around the brain, i.e., how we use it, and how emerging technology might shape it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSc Student

Olga Noga Shalit

I hold a BSc in Information Systems Engineering and am currently pursuing an MSc in Data Science. Under the supervision of Ph.D. Yoed Kenett, my research focuses on characterizing and classifying clinical populations by modeling mental navigation in semantic verbal fluency using computational multiplex networks. By combining network science, computational modeling, and cognitive psychology, I aim to better understand how different clinical populations organize and retrieve semantic knowledge and to support the development of more accurate computational tools for clinical assessment.

Alumni

Noam Gooz, Gal Samuel, Adi Ezer, Ruth Levav, Alon Tsaizel, Talia Weise, Shaked Fried, Maya Pery, Ariel Kreisberg-Nitzav, Gal Sasson-Lazovsky, Ke Ding, Katerina Superfin, Ofir Ganor, Amit Skurnik